Spy-craft Quotes

Bill Stephenson taught us all we ever knew about foreign intelligence.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that.

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it.